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Sadly, I must admit that I was forced to defect from the Thinkpad line to the Toshiba Tecra 720CDT for reasons already discussed on this mailing list. I actually LOVE the high resolution, and I can read the small print (I use all windows default fonts and colors). Don't hate me because I am impatient. Tim Nelson tnelson@shl.com ---------- From: dewar@gnat.com[SMTP:dewar@gnat.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 1996 2:57 PM To: emjay@execpc.com; thinkpad@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: Is there an equal for the 760ED? "I read the reviews of the Toshiba 720CDT in both PC Magazine and PC Week and did not come away with a full stomach." I have looked at the 720CDT and it looks very good to me, I will let people know more when I get mine, supposedly early next week. Remember that one of the reasons that PC Week did not like it was that text and icons are too small. Well I suppose there may be brain-dead systems where this is a problem (i.e. sizes cannot be adjusted), but I don't use any, so this is not a problem and on the contrary the extra resolution will be most welcome (finally two pages side by side!) Also people did not like the weight, but I always carry several extra batteries anyway, so this is not a factor. I also like the keyboard much better than the thinkpad 760 CD (the old thinkpad keyboards were much nicer, the new tilt up ones seem poor to me, but this is a very personal thing, you have to test it yourself). Basically, when it comes to portables, I would always trust your OWN feeling rather than that of a review, try them out and see what you think. It is true that the disk performance is slightly better on the 760ED, which is a factor with OS/2 with its small disk cache.